Twin slot shelving

You do want ~20 x 2.5m double slot white steel 50mm vertical spacing uprights don't you Tim (FOC, inc free delivery)? ;-)

It could be these:

(but 2.5m long).

Cheers, T i m

I found it impossible to get new brackets to fit old uprights, even though it's still the same manufacturer, the spacings had changed over a couple of decades :-(

I think we noted here that at some point there was an imperial>metric change.

Also some of the 'compatable' versions have shallower uprights. The brackets fit in the shop, but not when the upright is screwed to the wall.

Owain

Show me a wall which is not bowed or twisted. My kitchen worktop is built with these hook on brackets and we had to pack out some of the fixings to allow things to actually fit. Brian

In message , T i m writes

I didn't actually research types or suppliers. Toolstation stocked what I needed.

Looking at the *Aspect* illustration it appears that the lower pegs on the brackets are not hooks as they are on mine.

Two suggestions for the manufacturers:- Supply push on plastic channel to conceal the uprights once shelf height is established. And, offer a securing clip to push in above the brackets to stop them rising in the slots.

Agreed to a degree.

Dad always used to use 'Spur' shelving and was always able to get more uprights and brackets as required (not sure if you still can).

After ending up with a few different (as you say, often incompatible) systems I stuck with 'Element 32' because: we had a local stockist, it seemed good value, there were a reasonable range of fittings and seemed to be strong enough, even for use in the workshop.

Luckily, no one here cares about how it looks over how (well) it works so it can be used throughout the house (and is) as well as the workshop. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Yup, you can get lucky like that sometimes. Or you settle on something and then halfway though the project, the manufacturer stops making it or your local supplier stops selling it. ;-(

Yeah, they can be all sorts of designs. In this one room we have single slot two tangs on the brackets but with locking knurled nuts to hold them onto the uprights, double tang in a single slot that are tapped into place, uprights with the slots on the *sides* and single sided brackets with two tangs per shelf and some Element 32 where the brackets hook in the top and then just sit in the bottom. ;-)

I think that would be a faff and I don't mind seeing the slots )and most are covered with things on the shelves in any case). I can see how some might like a clip in or on cover but wouldn't some colour matched PVC tape or vinyl do the same job easier?

Again, if I'm fitting the shelf right to the back of the brackets you can't then lift the Element 32 brackets up high enough to release the bottom tangs (to allow you to slide them up enough to unhook the brackets completely). So I generally fit the shelves to the brackets clear of the back because:

It gives you a deeper shelf for less money. ;-)

It allows you to get wires / plugs down the back (HiFi / computer shelving).

It allows you to move them about without having to take the shelf off all the brackets.

After the storage unit fell off the wall in my mates PC shop and he asked me to help him put it back again (and I refused). ;-)

Instead I supplied and fitted (he paid for the materials) half the length of the shop with floor to ceiling with Element 32 and shelves made out of T&G floorboards glued together [1]. They have survived the test of time and after finishing the first batch he asked me to shelve out the rest of the shop. ;-)

Cheers, T i m